For every one person
who hears the message of Christ, it seems there are so many more who do not.
That single - minded purpose of following God, whatever the cost, will be a challenge to anyone
who hears his message.
In Acts, we read about Cornelius, a God - fearing Gentile,
who heard the message of eternal life and believed in Jesus for it (Acts 10:22, 44 - 48).
And the Jewish people
who heard the message of Peter and who wanted to participate with this arrival of the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ indicated this desire publicly by receiving the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, just as others had done with John about three years earlier.
The third soil represents Jerusalem,
who heard the message amongst all there worries of life, gave up on the good news.
There were questions and challenges from
those who heard this message, which were sometimes answered through parables and miracles.
But part of that explanation must also show how you are getting the people
who hear the message to put it into practice.
Kids
who hear these messages feel trapped.
As with the boy who cried wolf, the politicians
who hear the message repeatedly become skeptical.
Not exact matches
In April 2016, Sessions said during a Senate
hearing on drugs that the country needs «grownups» in charge
who send the
message that «marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.»
People
who don't get that, it would seem, just haven't gotten the
message — at least to
hear the current management tell it.
I recently
heard about one entrepreneur
who receives around 5,000
messages a week.
And the people
who develop the ability to tell their stories and deliver their
messages clearly, quickly and in ways that connect with us emotionally are going to be the only ones
heard.
Use these targeted
messages to create a feeling of trust and top - of - mind awareness, so that when your connections need you (or
hear of someone
who does) they will think of you!
Leaders
who are kind know how to take into account the feelings and perspectives of their employees while still delivering the
message they need to
hear in order to improve.
One of the problems with outbound marketing is that you have no control over
who's
hearing your
message.
The
message was driven home further by Fed Chair Janet Yellen,
who in a congressional
hearing in early November asserted that the downside risks to the US economy from global developments had diminished since September and that there has been a significant fall in labor market slack.
In every office, there is someone
who needs to know the love of Jesus,
who needs to
hear the
message of the Cross,
who needs someone like you to speak truth and life into their circumstance.
Your article was the first thing I read this Sunday morning before going to church and I wanted to extend a special «THANKS» not only for the support you provide to those
who actually need it most but also for your wonderful
message for those family members
who think they need to
hear and understand it the least.
Surely you don't think an omnipotent loving god,
who controls everything, would require the dying to spend their last precious moments, not bonding with their loved ones and saying their final goodbyes, but instead listening to YOU deliver a religious
message they've probably
heard countless times, and making the delivery of that
message a major condition of their gaining life for eternity.
First, those
who will make a decision based upon a single
hearing of the Gospel
message will be few and far spread.
Again Stevens expressed concern about unwilling listeners, at least those
who didn't want to
hear any religious
message.
«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or
heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel,
who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a
message that she circulated via email.
- So the same God
who melts our hearts with His word hardens others with that same word... because they refuse to
hear His
message!
What Genesis recounts can be difficult and confusing for us
who have the benefit of having
heard the
message of Christ communicated t...
What Genesis recounts can be difficult and confusing for us
who have the benefit of having
heard the
message of Christ communicated through the New Testament and the Church.
God
hears her sobs and delivers a
message through an angel
who asks Hagar why she is afraid.
I believe there are many souls out there
who attend a church and the conscience is pricked, then they turn off the
message and never
hear the love of Jesus shine.
Sure, people can say you violate your anonymity, or our traditions about publicity, etc. but I also know there may be some
who need to
hear your
message where it will give them the courage to try this (hard, as you said) way of getting sober.
All
who are born again have freely responded to God's drawing and have trusted in Christ and Him alone for eternal life (See Bob Wilkin, «The Lord Opened Her Heart»; «What About Those Who Die Without Hearing the Message of Christ?&raqu
who are born again have freely responded to God's drawing and have trusted in Christ and Him alone for eternal life (See Bob Wilkin, «The Lord Opened Her Heart»; «What About Those
Who Die Without Hearing the Message of Christ?&raqu
Who Die Without
Hearing the
Message of Christ?»)
There were no sons for my parents to rely on in their old age, to provide for their retirement, and then to care for them; that was the
message I
heard directly and indirectly from family and the extended «aunties» and «uncles»
who were not blood relatives but connected by ethnic heritage, culture, and language.
The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain
who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has
heard the
message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.
I was just sharing last night how a woman at my last church was talking about unconditional love in the face of her grandkids opening presents, but when she didn't
hear the tried and true
message from the previous pastor (
who by the way was one of architects of the church's mission to «love God and love people unconditionally) that was a problem.
[68:51] Those
who disbelieved show their ridicule in their eyes when they
hear the
message and say, «He is crazy!»
We
hear much the same
message from culture - warring Christians, and from secular conservatives
who covet Christian votes.
Finding candidates for the gospel
who have never
heard the name of Jesus Christ, but
who are so ready for the whole Christian
message that they simply fall at our feet — this never happens.
I just hope that people
who need to
hear their
message,
hear it.
My personal opinion is that when prayer is involved in songwriting and the songwriter is submitted to God and allows the Holy Spirit to lead them, then the song will have the
message that God wants His people to
hear, much the same as a Pastor
who writes a sermon, God Bless you.
You discredit those
who do not follow your beliefs, but why do you believe that the
message you
heard (from the time that it was given to your precedents) is the
message to be followed now and not some later
message given to others?
A group of searchers in the American mid-west,
who heard a newer
message, and have followed it with devotion and conviction ever since.
Jesus did not turn a blind eye to sin or avoid pronouncing judgment on those
who sinned because that was part and parcel of
who He was and why He came — to reveal His Father to those
who would
hear and reveal the punishment for those
who ignored His
message.
The epic
message — which started in Genesis and ended in Revelation — was
heard by hundreds of people,
who showed up in groups of 10 throughout the two - and - a-half day sermon.
Pray for those
who have left, it is far worse to
hear the
message and reject it than to have never
heard it at all.
Many postconservatives abandon exclusivism and opt for a new inclusivist view of salvation, believing it is possible for many
who never
hear the gospel
message to be saved.
The Bible's supreme
message of God's love for sinners and his eagerness to give new life and power to the repentant one
who responds to the Father's love, breaks through all bonds to reach any
who will
hear and heed it.
But if, for the reasons outlined earlier in this chapter, the Easter
message was already beginning to take shape in the minds of the disciples, of Peter in particular, the experience of seeing Jesus in his glorified state would have the effect of authenticating the Easter
message and of causing the Easter faith to take possession of whoever
heard it, and of those, in turn,
who were convinced by the apostolic testimony.
In the same letter, we read that the Gospel
message «was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those
who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).
«We have one right to expect from anyone
who is «speaking» for God — to «
hear» the
message of «Christ Crucified» — the Lord placarded as dying for our sin and being raised for our justification — the saving truth that deals with our failure.
An apostle is one
who is sent by God with a
message to those
who have not yet
heard the good news.
I've
heard from gay Christians offering words of thanks and encouragement, from mega-church pastors and youth leaders saying «
message received,» from college students and grandfathers and stay - at - home moms
who are ready to «stop waging war and start washing feet.»